Word: young
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Isaac Stern, one of the century's foremost violinists, stressed the importance of involving young people in the arts during his visit to Harvard yesterday...
Most students, teachers and Webster High parents support Young Life. "It's incredibly cool," enthuses Beth Perez, a Campaigners member. "It just shows kids, at a very early age, why they are here and what God has planned for them and how great their lives can be." Her mother Susan Perez, a lapsed Catholic, speaks for many parents who, if they fail to match their children's fervor, are extremely grateful for the program's fruits. "If your teenager is going to be tied to some sort of group; if she comes out of it saying I don't drink...
Campaigners do tend to be good students, well grounded, chaste and drug-free, although backsliding on drinking is not unknown. Through Campaigners, Club and their own considerable charisma, Herm and his wife Terri exert a major and wholesome influence on the entire student body. "I believe Young Life is a force in the school," says Herm. "I think it's increased school spirit...
...students who have not been to Club deride it as a cult. Mary Beth Carosello, a former student-body president who is studying at the University of Missouri, attended both Club and Camp but became disenchanted. "When you're a freshman, you see older kids who are so into Young Life and so into Terri and Herm, and you think, Wouldn't it be fun to be friends with them? And then you get in there, and they're really Christian [meaning Evangelical]. I came to feel, why do we need this hard-core group with such an important place...
James Jenkins is more comfortable with the group's role. Young Life is overwhelmingly white, but Jenkins, who is African American, is returning tonight to his second Club. A promising pitcher and the junior-varsity quarterback, he buses in from St. Louis' South Side. James has a younger brother and sister, and had an older brother Anthony Morris. "But he died. Some guys robbed and killed him." It happened three days after James' birthday. "I was 15," he says. (He still is.) He was 14, he says, when his father died. When Adams promises to talk about "some...